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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
I n May 1804, after being proclaimed Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte awarded the title of Marshal of the French Empire to eighteen of his generals. He would go on to appoint another ...
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SAYS HE IS MARSHAL NEY'S SON.; The Rev. James A. Weston Writes of a Doc- tor in Kentucky Who Confirms His Book on Napoleon's General.
Weston, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension, at Hickory, N.C., who lately wrote a carefully prepared work on "Historic Doubts as to the Execution of Marshal Ney," has ...